Luke 2:36

And Hanna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she also was aged in days, and, from her maidenhood, had lived seven years with her husband,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

In Context

35(and also a dart will pierce thy own soul); that the thoughts of the hearts of many may be disclosed.

37and was a widow of about eighty and four years, and departed not from the temple, but worshipped by day and by night with fasting and prayer;

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Cross References

Acts 2:18And upon: my servants and my handmaids will I pour my Spirit, in those days, and they shall prophesy.

1 Corinthians 12:1And concerning spirituals, my brethren, I would have you know,

Matthew Henry on Luke 2:26-41

Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his… Read the whole commentary →

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